Photoshop CS4 on Vista x64 - Nightmare!

[Dinarius]

System:

Windows Vista Ultimate (x64) Service Pack 1 (build 6001)
3.00 gigahertz Intel Core2 Extreme
8126 Megabytes Installed Memory
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 Graphics Card: Driver Version: 7.15.11.7813

Firstly, when I installed CS4, I downloaded and installed the latest driver for the Quadro FX 1700, namely, the 181.20. It was a nightmare, so I have rolled back to the one listed above. Also, "Enable OpenGL Drawing" is turned off in Preferences.

My main problem is with Bridge/Adobe Camera Raw(ACR) 5.2, not with Photoshop CS4. It (Bridge/ACR) is riddled with memory issues.

Memory in PS/CS4 is set to 60%.

When using ACR to process 120Mb Canon files, I keep getting the dreaded "There was not enough memory." error message. But, when Bridge/ACR are running, no other program is open. This error message never appeared in CS3.

It is now so bad that I have to process one file at a time. Even then, I am getting a new error message when trying to click from one processed file to the next one in the ACR window: "Could not switch, there was not enough memory."

To fulfill a deadline, I have had to revert back to CS3.

Can anyone suggest a fix?

CS4 64bit has been a huge disappointment as far as I'm concerned.

Help, please.

D.

 

[Tanshaydar]

lol, that's interesting. I'm using Photoshop CS4 64 bit, and it works prettier than CS2.
My graphic card is Nvidia Geforce Go 7200, which Vista gave 2.7 point.

 

[Dinarius]

Thanks for the reply.

1. How much RAM do you have and what do you have it set to in Photoshop's Edit/Preferences/Performance?

2. My problems lie almost totally with Bridge/ACR 5. Do you make heavy use of them? i.e. lots of files open in ACR and lots of adjustments made to those files?

Thanks.

D.

 

[Tanshaydar]

I have 2 GB ram, but I don't use bridge. Sometimes I deal with very high resolution images, but as I said, it works prettier than CS2.

I didn't change that much preferences that may affect performance. IDK, maybe you should re-install?